Robizon Khubulashvili

Come visit Georgia this summer 🇬🇪 — great food, and a great economics conference.

♟️♟️ Phd Econ Chess Arena! Organized by me and @michaelstepner, all skill levels welcome, come play an hour of bullet/blitz, once a month on lichess. First date Dec 28 12pm ET. If at all interested, please answer our Google Form: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Since this is my sabbatical and will be teaching only one class, I’d love to share my research more widely, so if anyone is interested in inviting me for a research seminar, I’d be very happy to visit. Especially anywhere within a 5-6 hour driving distance from SF (hate flying!).

Yesterday was my temporary last class at @usfca, and on the same day, I signed a contract to join @UCBerkeley as a visiting Assistant Professor of Economics.

Interested in "irrational" economic behavior? Check out my interview with @alexolegimas on his new book "The Winner's Curse" (co-authored with @R_Thaler). I am joined on this episode by my colleague @robizon_k. This and other episodes are posted on @NewBooksNetwork. Link below.

Join us @ WEAI100 for: STRUCTURAL BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS 🗓 Sun, Jun 22 | 10:15–12 PDT 📍 San Francisco Marriott Marquis, Level 2, Foothill D Papers on: 🎮 Nationalism in games 🚕 Market homophily 💡 Online Knowledge contributions 🔥 Hot-hand belief #WEAI100 #Econ #BehavioralEcon

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The Georgian people have taken to the streets to peacefully protest for their sovereignty, democracy, and European future, only to be met with violence and repression. They refuse to become a Russian colony. Stand with the Georgian people! 🇬🇪🇺🇸

@notstevenwhite queen takes bishop!

Well, this is a weird chess position: black is down material, but white's king looks like it might be in trouble. What should white play to stabilize the position and come out with a solid advantage? #chesspunks

Finally my job market paper has been published in Management Science! And of course, it uses data from chess players!

@notstevenwhite Rd7 followed by fork from b6, black can regain knight by trapping it from b7 but white king can get to pawn on c5 and should not be hard to win

Very tactics puzzle-like position from a blitz game this evening: white to play and get a big advantage #chesspunks

A while back, I got rejected from a conference that only asked for an abstract with the reason that they received many high-quality submissions. But can you judge a paper by its abstract alone without seeing how the work is actually done?

I applied to a conference with a theme so closely aligned with my paper that I thought I was reading my own abstract. Got rejected because it didn’t fit the agenda.

I didn't know this paper... >300 people refereed the same economics paper, with author listed as 1. an early career scholar 2. anonymous 3. a Nobel laureate (from same university as 1) Recommendations: 65% reject for early career scholar, 23% reject for Nobel laureate 😑

Nationalism in Online Games During War marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolu…

@ho_ben @peterlorentzen I agree; there is so much that can be explored using chess data. I have already published one and am working on three other chess papers. And yes, I know that paper, and one of my papers is based on their cool work! I will definitely take a look at your paper about trust and war!

@peterlorentzen @robizon_k Nice. A lot of potential for cool chess research esp since the game is now effectively fully solved. Like not sure you saw this by yuval nber.org/papers/w30002 Also past papers (like ours kinda) have looked at war and trust. Curious if can see that in chess data.

We’re currently refining the paper in several directions, including collecting data from Israeli–Palestinian conflict. We're translating our model into testable hypotheses to explore possible mechanisms and conducting several robustness checks.

While working on this project, we discovered many avenues for further exploration, and we plan to pursue them all!

Thanks, @peterlorentzen for sharing the paper! I wish we lived in a world without international conflicts so that such research wouldn't be necessary. Unfortunately, that’s not the case, and we’re seeing more and more control-treatment groups to cover.